Copied by three main scribes and three additional scribes; four of the scribal hands also appear in Part I of Paris F-Pn 4379. Probably copied in Naples, but a Roman origin is also possible (AtlCG). Forty-two folios were removed from the present manuscript in 1884, and taken to Paris where they were acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale in 1885 and are now Part I of F-Pn 4379. This MS and Part I of F-Pn 4379 once formed a single manuscript, which was purchased in Rome in 1515 by Fernando Colón (1488-1539), son of the navigator. The manuscript was listed as #2526 in one of the surviving catalogues ('Registrum B') of Colón's books. Colón bequeathed his library (the so-called 'Fernandina' or 'Colombina') to his nephew Luis; the collection passed to the chapter of Seville Cathedral in 1552. A virtual reconstruction of this complete manuscript is here.
E-Sc 5-1-43 (Seville Chansonnier)
Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina (housed in the Institución Colombina), Seville, Spain
manuscript of polyphony: c. 1470-1485
| Archive | Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina (housed in the Institución Colombina), Seville, Spain (E-Sc) |
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| Shelfmark | 5-1-43 (Seville Chansonnier) |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 209 x 157 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 139 compositions, 58 from 26 composers, 81 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Eight original folios lost at an unknown time; 42 folios of original corpus now preserved separately as Part I of ParisBNN 4379 (PlamS; see below). Edges of folios trimmed, obliterating some attributions and most of a Roman numeral foliation.
Binding
covers of white parchment; 17th century
Watermark
presumably include those found in Part I of ParisBNN 4379: (1) resembles Briquet #3387; (2) generally resembles Briquet #4413.
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Roman numeral foliation. Original ink foliation on lower right rectos uses letters to designate gatherings, Arabic numbers to designate folios within gatherings. Foliation extended from 'a1' through 'r8' in original manuscript of 188 folios. Original folios now in Part I of ParisBNN 4379 include e2-e11, f4-f12, g1, h2-h11, n2-n12, and o1; original ff. a10, b6-b10, f3, and g2 lost; remaining folios form present manuscript. Modern foliation by Higinio Anglès, 1-138. Original ink numbering of pieces, 1-164, on upper right rectos (several inconsistencies; numbers sometimes mistakenly construed as foliation)
Decoration
Inked calligraphic initials coloured with light yellow wash; some initials decorated with faces.
Index
Incomplete alphabetical index on new ff. 1-2, followed by short musical treatise on ff. 2'-5'
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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3 motets, 92 French secular pieces (3 without text), 22 Italian secular pieces (1 without text), 4 German secular pieces, 2 Dutch secular pieces, 1 quodlibet, 4 textless pieces = 128 + 1 duplicate = 129 (16 incomplete, but missing parts for 6 of these are found in Part I of ParisBNN 4379)
A. Agricola-2, (Basin)-1, (Bedingham/Dunstable)-1, (Binchois-anon)-1, Busnois-14, (Busnois/Caron)-1, (Busnois/Compère/ Mureau)-1, (Busnois/Ockeghem)-1, (Caron)-6, (Caron/Morton) -1, (Compère/Tinctoris)-1, (Convert)-1, (Cornago)-1, (Dufay)-2, (Frye)-1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-2, (Japart)-1, (Josquin)-3, (Josquin/Lannoy)-1, (Joye)-1, (Martini)-3, (Morton)-1, (Ockeghem)-1, (Ockeghem-anon)-2, Pietrequin? [name mostly cut off]/ (A. Agricola)-1, (Senfl?)-1, (Tinctoris)-1, (Touront)-1, (Vincenet) -1, Weerbecke [Gaspar]/(Josquin)-1, Zuny-1, anon-71
138 paper folios of an original 188, 209 x 157. Eight original folios lost at an unknown time; 42 folios of original corpus now preserved separately as Part I of ParisBNN 4379 (PlamS; see below). Edges of folios trimmed, obliterating some attributions and most of a Roman numeral foliation. Three additional numbering systems-(1) Original ink foliation on lower right rectos uses letters to designate gatherings, Arabic numbers to designate folios within gatherings. Foliation extended from "a1" through "r8" in original manuscript of 188 folios. Original folios now in Part I of ParisBNN 4379 include e2-e11, f4-f12, g1, h2-h11, n2-n12, and o1; original ff. a10, b6-b10, f3, and g2 lost; remaining folios form present manuscript. (2) Original ink numbering of pieces, 1-164, on upper right rectos (several inconsistencies; numbers sometimes mistakenly construed as foliation). (3) Modern foliation by Higini Anglès, 1-138.
New ff. 6-9', 37, 47-47', 48', and 123 have blank staves only. Present covers of white parchment date from 17th century. Incomplete alphabetical index on new ff. 1-2, followed by short musical treatise on ff. 2'-5'. Copied by three main scribes and three additional scribes; four of the scribal hands also appear in Part I of ParisBNN 4379. Inked calligraphic initials colored with light yellow wash; some initials decorated with faces. Watermarks presumably include those found in Part I of ParisBNN 4379: (1) resembles Briquet #3387; (2) generally resembles Briquet #4413.
Ca. 1470-85 (see discussions in AtlCG, SchavP). Probably copied in Naples, but Roman origin also possible (AtlCG). SevC 5-1-43 and Part I of ParisBNN 4379 once formed a single manuscript, which was purchased in Rome in 1515 by Fernando Colón (1488-1539), son of the navigator; manuscript listed as #2526 in one of the surviving catalogues ("Registrum B") of Colón's books. Colón bequeathed his library (the so-called "Fernandina" or "Colombina") to his nephew Luis; collection passed to chapter of Seville Cathedral in 1552. Forty-two folios removed from present manuscript in 1884, and taken to Paris; acquired by Bibliothèque Nationale in 1885 (now Part I of ParisBNN 4379).
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Seville Chansonnier
Fragments of a whole · 2 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.
Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2. New York. Pages: xxiii,xxvi-xxvii,xxxi,xxxvi, 3-4,62-4,77-85,89-92. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1981. Conflicting Attributions in Italian Sources of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson, c. 1465-c. 1505: A Progress Report on a New Hypothesis. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, Cambridge. Pages: 260-2,269-71,278,281,283. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); Discussion of the MS.
Atlas, Allan W. 1981. Review of Perkins, Leeman L: and Garey, Howard (eds.): "The Mellon Chansonnier" (New Haven and London, 1979). Journal of the American Musicological Society, 34: 132ff. Pages: 139-40. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Boorman, Stanley. 1981. Limitations and Extensions of Filiation Technique. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, edited by Stanley Boorman, 319-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages: 326-39. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1980. French Duos in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century. Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht, , 43-87. Kassel, Basel, and London. Pages: 48-50. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.
Davis, Dennis Michael. 1979. The Structure and Contents of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Codex Lat. Mon. 5023. University of Illinois, Unpublished Master's thesis. Pages: 92,94,132. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier. New Haven and London. Pages: I,15; II, 176-7, 214ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Pope, Isabel, and Masakata Kanazawa (editors). 1978. The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871: A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Musk of the Late Fifteenth Century. Oxford. Pages: 549,569ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Schavran, Henrietta. 1978. The Manuscript Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, Codice Aldini 362: A Study of Song Tradition in Italy Circa 1440-1480. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 49-57, 78ff, 332-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1977. On the Neapolitan Provenance of the Manuscript Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, 431 (G 20). Musica Disciplina, 31: 45ff. Pages: 45,48-9,82ff. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies, vol. 27. Brooklyn. Pages: I, 73ff, 257. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hanen, Martha Knight. 1973. The Chansonnier El Escorial, Ms. IV.a.24. University of Chicago, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 24,37-9,256-8,267. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
‡ Moerk, Alice Anne. 1971. The Seville Chansonnier: An Edition of Seville 5-1-43 and Paris N.A.FR. 4379 (Pt 1). West Virginia University, Ph.D. Dissertation. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; discussion.
Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1969. Cantus Firmus in the French Chanson for Two and Three Voices, 1500-1550. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 129-33. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Osthoff, Wolfgang. 1969. Theatergesang und Darstellende Musik in der Italienischen Renaissance. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14. Tutzing. Pages: I, 25-6,42-4; II,18,50-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 196-7; III,75,91-3. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Plamenac, Dragan. 1965. The Two-Part Quodlibets in the Seville Chansonnier. The Commonwealth of Music, 163-81. London and New York. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Picker, Martin. 1964. Newly Discovered Sources for In Minen Sin. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 17: 133-43. Pages: 138-42. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Plamenac, Dragan. 1962. Facsimile Reproduction of the Manuscripts Sevilla 5-1-43 & Paris N. A. Fr. 4379 (Pt. 1). Publications of Medieval Musical Manuscripts, vol. 8. Brooklyn. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile.
Lerner, Edward R (editor). 1961-70. Alexandrí Agricola: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 22. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V,xxiii-xxvi,xciv-xcv, 125-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
‡ Plamenac, Dragan. 1951-1952. A Reconstruction of the French Chansonnier in the Biblioteca Colombina, Seville. The Musical Quarterly, 37-38: (37) 501-542, (38) 85-117, 245-77. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Brooks, Catherine V. 1951. Antoine Busnois as a Composer of Chansons. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,130ff, 160ff; II,58,106-9,185-90,210-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); transcription (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
de Van, Guillaume, and Heinrich Besseler (editors). 1948-66. Guillaume Dufay: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 1. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VI,xxi,lix. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Anglès, Higinio. 1947. La música conservada en la Biblioteca Colombina y en la Catedral de Sevilla. Anuário Musical, 2: 3ff. Pages: 8. Notes: physical description.
‡ Anglès, Higinio. 1929. El 'Chansonnier Français' de la Colombina de Sevilla. Estudis Universitaris Catalans, 14: 227ff. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); inventory; facsimile (partial).
Jeppesen, Knud (editor). 1927. New York, 1965 (reprint, with new remarks by the editor). Der Kopenhagener Chansonnier: Das Manuskript Thott 291s der Königlichen Bibliothek Kopenhagen. Copenhagen and Leipzig. Copenhagen and Leipzig. Pages: lxxiii,lxxxvii-ff. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
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